{"id":1760,"date":"2022-03-17T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:45:46","slug":"throwback-thursday-17-mar-2022-ordnance-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/john-michael.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/17\/throwback-thursday-17-mar-2022-ordnance-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday 17 MAR 2022 – Ordnance Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordnance Museum?\u00a0 what’s an Ordnance?<\/p>\n

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  1. mounted guns; artillery.” the gun was a brand new piece of ordnance”<\/li>\n
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    a branch of the armed forces dealing with the supply and storage of weapons, ammunition, and related equipment.<\/div>\n
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    “The ordnance corps”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    It Was at Aberdeen Proving Ground\u00a0 (APG)<\/h2>\n

    The Ordnance Museum held a prominent location within Aberdeen Proving Ground<\/a>, Maryland.\u00a0 The proving grounds were established in 1917 to test the equipment, armaments, and materiel utilized by the United States Army.<\/p>\n

    Long before what John Michael<\/a> calls “Operation Lockdown” that has made it very challenging to access any United\u00a0 States military facility, a road trip was planned to explore this wonderful storehouse of history that contained within and without – surrounding among the fields about the building examples of both United States and foreign armament.\u00a0 The museum building itself was not large enough to contain all of the armament, armor, and artillery that surrounded it … mostly in fields behind the building.<\/p>\n

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    An M5 to Greet Me!<\/h2>\n

    How serendipitous!\u00a0 There on display was in all its gloriest drab olive-colored paint a World War II-era M5 3″ antitank gun .\u00a0 The same gun used by the Presidential Salute Battery<\/a> – the elite unit of the 3d Infantry<\/a> – The Old Guard<\/a>!\u00a0 What a nice surprise, for the only\u00a0 M5 guns that I had seen until that time were painted in Shiny black and silver and used in ceremonies in and around Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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    During World War II 2,500 of these M5 guns were produced by the Vilter Manufacturing Company<\/a> in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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    From what was painted on the trail, it appears that this gun was produced in March 1945, and given the serial number 0781<\/p>\n

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    <\/a>\"\"by David Grummitt (Author)<\/p>\n

    ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    8 pages of full-color illustrations depicting 14 different vehicles.<\/b><\/p>\n

    The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Designed to survive the imagined high-intensity, Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) battlefield of the Cold War, it became, alongside the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the mainstay of US armored forces during the 1980s. As the Cold War ended, however, it would go on to prove its worth on other battlefields. During the First Gulf War, the Bradley would destroy more Iraqi AFVs than the Abrams, while during the 1990s it would prove itself an effective weapons system in the missions to Bosnia and Kosovo. The 2003 invasion of Iraq and the fighting that followed confirmed its reputation as a versatile and deadly AFV.<\/p>\n

    This volume examines the development and service history of both the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle and the M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle. The various modifications and improvements over its long service history are described, as is the experience of the soldiers who have fought alongside and in it during the past three decades. The book also gives a full account of the wide range of kits and accessories available in all the popular scales and includes a modeling gallery covering the most important Bradley variants. Detailed color profiles provide both reference and inspiration for modelers and military enthusiasts alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Bradley Fighting Vehicle: <\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

    The US Army\u2019s Combat-Proven Fighting Platform, <\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

    1981\u20132021 (LandCraft)\u00a0<\/span>Paperback \u2013 June 29, 2021<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

    The M5’s World War II-era sighting apparatus<\/h2>\n

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    2009 SEP 02 Presidential Salute Battery at ANC<\/h2>\n

    The acres of Arlington National Cemetery often are filled with the thunder of the M5s when the Presidential Salute Battery carries out a mission where they are “Often Heard, But Rarely Seen”\u00a0 …\u00a0 In this case Seen<\/strong> Up close and personal!\u00a0 \u00a0ENJOY!<\/p>\n